"It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

want, need, require(verb)

have need of

"This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"

need(verb)

have or feel a need for

"always needing friends and money"

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Need(noun)

a state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want

Need(noun)

want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution

Need(noun)

that which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business

Need(noun)

situation of need; peril; danger

Need(noun)

to be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief

Need(verb)

to be wanted; to be necessary

Need(adverb)

of necessity. See Needs

Origin: [See Need, n. Cf. AS. ndan to force, Goth. naujan.]

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Need

A need is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants because a deficiency would cause a clear negative outcome, such as dysfunction or death. Needs can be objective and physical, such as food, or they can be subjective and psychological, such as the need for self-esteem. On a social level, needs are sometimes controversial. Understanding needs and wants is an issue in the fields of politics, social science, and philosophy.

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Need

nēd, n. want of something which one cannot do without: necessity: a state that requires relief: want of the means of living.—v.t. to have occasion for: to want.—ns.Need′-be, a necessity; Need′er; Need′fire, fire produced by friction, to which a certain virtue is superstitiously attached: a beacon generally.—adj.Need′ful, full of need: having need: needy: necessary: requisite.—adv.Need′fully.—n.Need′fulness.—adv.Need′ily.—n.Need′iness.—adj.Need′less (Shak.), having no need: not needed: unnecessary.—adv.Need′lessly.—n.Need′lessness.—adv.Need′ly (Shak.), necessarily.—n.Need′ment, something needed.—adv.Needs, of necessity: indispensably—often used with must, as 'needs must.'—adj.Need′y, very poor: requisite.—n.Need′yhood.—The needful (slang), ready money. [A.S. néd, niéd, nýd; Dut. nood, Ger. noth.]

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Song lyrics by need -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by need on the Lyrics.com website.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

When I am centered on love I don’t need to be better than you. I don’t need you to like me. I don’t need to be rich. I don’t even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love who I am and where I am at is enough

This world is made for them. You don’t need money, you don’t need power, you don’t need resources, you don’t need scale, you don’t need experience. What you need is an idea with executional capability, it’s that kind of craziness now that is going to win.